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Prime Minister Boris Johnsons’s special adviser Dominic Cummings may have broken lockdown rules in a “minor breach” according to Durham police. The Number 10 strategist has been at the heart...

We spoke to James McEnaney following Sturgeon’s announcement that schools are set to open from the 11th of August, to understand how the lockdown has impacted students and what the...

Polls all point one way at the moment for both Scottish independence and the SNP. An Ipsos Mori poll (27 May) has found that 53 per cent want another independence...

Today (Thursday May 28) new test and trace regimes come into effect in both Scotland and England. In both cases they will involve yet more unusual curtailments of established civil...

Common Weal Versus the Virus: The virus is exposing the reality of the weaknesses in our economy, society and democracy. Over the last six years Common Weal has been showing that...

ALMOST TWO MONTHS AGO, I warned that the Scottish Government wasn’t doing nearly enough to protect Scotland from the Coronavirus pandemic. I highlighted the abject failure caused by cancelling the...

Socially-distanced street protests, moves to impeach a president – Latin America has begun to lead the way, not only in the gravity of the Coronavirus crisis, but in the scale...

Since the global pandemic was announced, governing institutions around the world have worked hard at maintaining popular focus on a singular abstract threat. More than one at any time can...

In his latest essay on the state of the Scottish independence movement, Jonathon Shafi argues the Dominic Cummings scandal has exposed the nature of the British state, and bolstered the...

Nick Kempe, author of the recent Common Weal report on Scotland’s care homes and the Coronavirus pandemic, argues that the Scottish Government has not yet reckoned with the problems facing...